Graphical Fragment Assembly (GFA) Format Specification

We are developing the specification of the Graphical Fragment Assembly (GFA) format. Your contribution is welcome. Please open up issues or submit pull requests.

The format was first suggested in a blog post by Heng Li (@lh3) and further developed in a second post.

Implementations

• ABySS 1.9.0
• Bandage
• bfgraph
• DALIGNER forked by jts
• fermi mag2gfa
• gfatools
• McCortex
• miniasm
• vg

Resources

• Examples of sequence overlap graphs (assembly graphs) in a variety of formats